What is fermentation and why is it important?

Fermentation is an ancient process used to break down food into more absorbablecomponents.

Hereare some key benefits of fermentation:

Fermentation pre-digests nutrients and beneficial compounds into more accessible and bioavailableforms.

In some instances, fermentation can actually make certain foods more edible and more digestible, such as roots, leaves, nuts, tubers, seeds andgrains.

Fermentation can increase the presence of probiotics in the food.

Each Ancient Apothecary Herbal formula is infused with Organic Essential Oils and CO2extracts.

The Power of Essential Oils

Essential oils are often referred to as the“life blood”of plants and trees.They are the concentrated oils of herbs, plants and trees.

For example, it takes approximately 3,000 lemons to make one kilo of lemon essential oil, while one 15mL bottom of lemon essential oil takes about 75 lemons! To go deeper, there are nearly 300 drops in a 15mL bottle, so 1 drop of lemon essential oil is made by using ¼ of a whole lemon!

Likewise, 150 pounds of lavender is necessary for just one pound of pure lavender essential oil, while one 15mL bottle of lavender oil requires 27 square feet of lavender plants. With approximately 300 drops of lavender oil in a 15mL bottle, one drop equals nearly .09 square feet of lavender plants.

The bottom line: here’s a whole lot of beneficial plant life in essential oils.

These precious oils can be distilled or extracted using CO2 and bottled, and when steam distilled, essential oils keep the “frequency” that they had when they resided in the plant.

Additionally, essential oils provide lipo-soluble fractions of plants. Since plants contain both water- and fat-soluble active compounds, we believe itisimportant to consume a full spectrum of beneficial compounds.Fats and oils arebeneficialfor the effective delivery of key antioxidant compounds.

The Importance of Organic Herbs

It’s no secret that in conventionally grown foods and herbs, farmersoftenuse a variety of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides synthetic fertilizers and many other "processing agents”which often remain in and on the food or herbs. Even washing these foods or herbs can’t get many of these off the produce.

Why? Because nearly 20 percent of the 17,000 (or more) pesticides in use today are known as systemic pesticides—those which reside inside the plant via its root system and have permeated the plant. That’s means they’reeverywherewithin the plants themselves and can’t be washed off.

To try to avoid these chemicals in and on our food, many people choose to go organic.That reason alone is enough to make going organic is all the rage these days.

But another important benefit of organic food and herbs is that, because they’re grown organically, these plants areoftenable to produce their own natural defenses against pests.

As a result, these plants can have some of the very compounds and natural defenses that we can and often should include in our diet.

That’swhy you’ll find these health-supporting organic herbs in each and every Ancient Apothecary Fermented Herbs.

In Ayurveda, black pepper, long pepper and ginger are tied to the Sanskrit wordtrikatu, meaning three spices or three peppers. Trikatu is an Ayurvedic blend of the fruits of black pepper, long pepper and the rhizomes of ginger.

Bitter botanicals or "bitters" are historically regarded as beneficial.

Bycombining organicfermented botanicals, whole organic herbs and spices, hot water herbal extracts and lipo-soluble fractions, Ancient Apothecary Fermented Herbal formulasfeaturea full-spectrum infusion of the best that Nature has to offer!

The Importance of Healthy Joints

The body is said to have 360 joints, although it’s a count that varies due to what is defined as a joint and a person’s age. For example, some joints fuse together over time. However, it’s safe to say that there are between 200 and 400 joints in the human body.

That means that there arehundredsof joints in the body, and you probably don’t even think about your body’s hundreds of joints—unless they’re not doing their jobs quite so well. Then not only do you think about them, but you also want to make sure they’re comfortable.

Joints need to be working correctly, too, because they have a lot of work to do. Your joints function like hinges at the point where two bones come together, and the truth is that you wouldn’t be able to bend, twist or even turn around easily without your joints.

Of course, bones are great for strength, but if we had only bones, then movement would be impossible. Nature solved this by dividing the skeleton into many bones and placing joints where bones meet.

Joints, also known asarticulations, are strong connections that join the bones, teeth and cartilage of the body to one another. Each joint has a specialized shape and structure controlling the range of motion between the parts that it connects.

Healthy joints should move comfortably, but sometimes they don’t—for a variety of reasons.

Truth is, millions of Americans have occasional joint discomfort, and joint issues can happen to any joint in the body, but the larger, weight-bearing ones are the most common ones affected: the hips, the knees, etc. Why? They’re the ones that have a lifetime of stress put on them, and the more stress a joint is under, the more discomfort it can feel.

In short, joints are pretty amazing and super important to our health, well-being and movement. That’s why it’s so important to take care of them.

Turmeric, Curcuminoids, Curcumin and Turmerones

Turmeric, curcuminoids, curcumin and turmerones are not the same or interchangeable terms.

Here’s why:turmeric(Curcuma longa) is a distinctive yellow spice;curcuminoidsare a family of active compounds within turmeric which includes curcumin;curcuminis part of curcuminoids—a small but potent, vastly studied and important part of turmeric;turmeronesare also bioactive molecules found withinturmeric buthaven’t been studied as much as curcumin has been.

With that foundation, let’s get started.

With a long track record (over 4,000 years) of health benefits, turmeric (Curcuma longa), a perennial herbaceous plant,supports a healthy response to inflammation.†

And here’s a powerful force behind turmeric: Curcumin.

In the 1970s, scientists found that the bright orange color in turmeric is due to itsantioxidantswithin it via what’s calledcurcuminoid compounds, of which curcumin (which has been the subject of more than 2,000 published studies in the past few years alone) is believed to be the most potent.

In short, the yellow or orange pigment of turmeric, calledcurcumin, issignificant.

There’s widespread interest in curcumin, the active compound found in the rhizome (underground stem) of turmeric, butturmeronesand other active compounds in turmeric haven’t been as thoroughly explored.

Turmerones are bioactive molecules in turmeric which can also benefit health.

Curcumin and turmerones are not the same, but they both can offer benefits.

Turmeric, in general, provides many benefits,butthe clinically studied turmeric extract (95% curcuminoids) in Fermented Turmericis obtained from the dried rhizomes ofCurcuma longaand standardized for minimum 95% curcuminoids.It has optimized composition of curcuminoids from rhizomes of turmeric and is among the most extensively studied and clinically documented.

Butthere’s even more goodness in Fermented Turmeric!Ancient Apothecary Fermented Turmeric alsofeaturesashwagandha in the form of Organic Ashwagandha Extract(Root and Leaf).

Often hailed for its stress-relieving effects, Ashwagandha truly has a long list of benefits, including helping to support normal joint function and overall joint health.†

In addition to the healthy joint benefits, the clinically studied ashwagandha ingredient in Fermented Turmeric can:

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